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Yesterday the Atmel AVR Dragon which I’d ordered earlier in the week from Digi-Key arrived. This is a low cost ($50) dev device and programmer which does in-system programming, high voltage serial programming, parallel programming, JTAG programming. It also does full emulation of devices with less than 32kB of memory, with debugging support available via JTAG and debugWire.
In short, it can do a lot. The only downside is that it comes as a rather sparse kit requiring one to bolt on a few extra parts to make it nicely usable. My first desire is to use it as a batch programmer, so I set it up with a ZIF socket and pin headers which, when properly connected together, any DIP part to be installed and programmed. It’s also supported by a whole bunch of different (legally) free programming tools, which is really nice.
It’s too bad that I’m waiting on this set of jumpers from seeed_studio to arrive so I can easily plug it all together. Hopefully these will be here next week.
If you’d like to see photos of the AVR Dragon that arrived today, including some of the ZIF socket and add-on LRF support, please take a look here: Atmel’s AVR Dragon.
Some people just don’t get it, though. Take
19:59 <BleuLlama> like an arduino for programming AVRs
20:18 <c0nsumer> haha
20:18 <c0nsumer> no.